HIGH diddle, diddle,
   The Cat and the Fiddle,
The Cow jump'd over the Moon;
The little Dog laugh'd
To see such Craft,
   And the Dish ran away with the Spoon.

The Original Mother Goose's Melody, As First Issued by John Newbery, of London, About A.D., 1760. Reproduced in fac-simile from the edition as reprinted by Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester, Mass. About A.D., 1785. With Introductory Notes by William H. Whitmore. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1889. [Reprinted by Singing Tree Press, Book Tower, 1969] p. 32.

HEY! diddle, diddle,
   The cat and the fiddle, 
The cow jumped over the moon;
   The little dog laugh'd
   To see the sport, 
While the dish ran after the spoon.

Halliwell, James Orchard, Comp. Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1853, p. 86. No. CCCCXXVI

HEY! diddle diddle,
   The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jump'd over the moon;
   The little dog laugh'd
   To see such sport,
While the dish ran after the spoon.

Old Nurse's Book: Of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties. Ed. and Illus. by Charles H. Bennett. London, England: Griffith and Farran, 1857. [Facsimile edition reproduced from The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. Toronto Public Library by Holp Shuppan, Publishers, Tokyo 1981.] p. 14.

Sing hey diddle diddle,
   The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon,
   The little dog laughed
   To see such craft,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.

Baring-Gould, Sabine. A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes. Illus. by Members of the Birmingham Art School under the direction of A. J. Gaskin. London, England: Methuen, 1895, p. 115. No. X in Nursery Rhyme Section

HEY! Diddle, diddle,
   The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
   The little dog laugh'd
   To see the sport,
While the dish ran after the spoon.

Lang, Andrew, Ed. The Nursery Rhyme Book. Illus. by L. Leslie Brooke. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1897, p. 192.

Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.

Opie, Iona and Peter Opie, Comps. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1951, p.203. No. 213